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Healing Hand, the most talented Imperial Medacor of his time, gained greatly from his friendship with Guarding Bear and Bubbling Water. Their political influence helped him rise to the foremost station in his profession.
Or did it? The record we have of Healing Hand's talents implies that he would have become the Imperial Medacor regardless of their help. In The Gathering of Power, the Wizard Spying Eagle (9324) attests, “Healing Hand had the power of an Imperial Sword, even without a talisman.” Whether hyperbole or fact, we cannot know.—The Twins and The Swords, by Keeping Track.
Guarding Bear recognized the rat-faced courier. How did I so badly misconstrue his information about Snarling Jaguar before the negotiations? he wondered. “This way, Lord Rat,” he said, walking toward the si
